I’ll keep this one short as I want to try and get some proper sleep tonight (I finally have black bags over my bedroom windows!)

The sun finally came out! At least it did in the north east of the archipelago. We used the webcams that are placed all over the country to check — in real-time! To capitalise, we headed up to Vidareidi (from which point we could see Muli, the abandoned town I photographed the other day) and walked south along the coast.

The Atlantic Ocean has never looked quite so alluring. Deep-azure, turquoise, cobalt, midnight, Egyptian — blue! But not the wussy, pale blues of the Caribbean but dark, intense shades.

Also, there wasn’t a single hill in sight. Just lovely, flat coastlines. It looks like the islands were once volcanic (but I’m sure someone (mum?) will take one look at the photos and tell me exactly what kind of rock it is!) Actually, thinking about it, I found a vein of quartz so I’m sure it was once volcanic.

Anyway, two lovely photos from the island of Vidoy (and one of me posing at the end…):

And the bonus photo — me posing on the end of a very, very precarious rock. The fall is about 10 meters. There’s a photo of me losing my balance a few seconds later… but I look petrified, so we’ll just skip past that one…

The rock does indeed look like basalt, and the folded bit in the first photo looks like lava as it comes into the sea. Well done dear, you did remember some Geography!
I love your ‘posing and looking out to sea’ model photo, darling.
Are you managing to stay ‘regular’?

And thanks for your unique slant on life, Kali. Damn it all to heck. Stab, stab. Moan, moan. The world SUCKS. Holy shit, whether you think it was scary or not has absolutely no bearing on whether *I* found it scary?! No WAY!

Those are so amazing. You know how when you get a new computer, you automatically want to change the desktop background because it’s some lame, logo-fied picture? So you go and see what pictures they have in the settings… and there’s all these beauuutiful background landscape pictures? These two look like they could be those

Great pictures Seb. But you realize it’s your fault if the Faroes become buried under a torrent of tourists, right? The second one is amazing and the one of you reminds me of, well, me on the edge of the Cliffs of Moher.

I’ve seen a grand total of 3 tourists so far, Kevin — but it’s no surprise considering it’s completely inhospitable unless you know people that know people that… You’re not allowed to camp anywhere really, and the hotels are very expensive (think central London/NYC). So I don’t think there’s any chance of me popularising these beautiful little islands

I don’t think it’s surprising that it looks like the Irish or Scottish coastline — it was probably attached to Scotland long ago!

Not happening, Jaime!

I’m so glad my mother is stealing all my thunder! The story of my life…

(Andhari, prepare for a long visit in a year or so, I will need a good tour guide…!)

Not a biologist. Physical oceanography. I have a feeling we’ve been through this before…

That said, yes, I am familiar with the fact that wet algae on rocks is quite slippery. Of course, we can’t see the algae very well in the photo, either. But I am sure you were being very brave standing over that waterfall.

Thanks, Eric! (And, yes, I just need some music now to go with the album cover… I’ll have to get working on that. After this trip to the Faroes I’ll probably come back with a braided beard and a penchant for growling in a Nordic fashion to heavy metal riffs…)

My continued education into Faroese music has been quite enjoyable Eric! Tyr are great, and a bunch of other folksky/popsy/rocky bands are fun too. Seems a bit more characterful than the mindless-growly type that I thought ruled the Metal roost.

I think you have sights just like these over the border in Canada, MinD